Let’s Encrypt With Nginx

When I saw the first news of the Let’s Encrypt project several months ago I got pretty excited about it, mostly because I don’t like to use self-signed certificates and this blog didn’t seem worthwhile to pay for a proper certificate on. Combined with the recent news of Google starting to shame sites not using SSL I figured I would give it a shot. Here is a quick rundown of how I configured my nginx web server to use Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. The official documentation for Let’s Encrypt can be found here. A few things to note at the start: I did not use the nginx plugin, as that is very broken I followed a fairly manual process using the “webroot” method thanks to this tutorial My Linux distro is Arch Linux This first thing you need to do is install/configure Let’s Encrypt. You can do this in any […]

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